This presentation considers how to evaluate the sometimes extraordinary experiences patients present. After first discussing what mystical experiences are from Eastern, Western, Freudian and Jungian perspectives, the presentation will explore how to differentiate mystical experience from psychosis.

OBJECTIVES

1.To create awareness of the mystical variations of experiences in clinical patients.

2.To explore how to differentiate mystical experience from psychosis.

Dr. Catherine Stevenson is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Houston, Texas. She trained at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, moving to Houston as part of the Menninger-Baylor College of Medicine merger to complete her residency. Psychoanalytic studies, begun at the Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis, were completed at the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute after the move. A former President of the Houston Psychoanalytic Society, Dr. Stevenson is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry at Baylor, where she teaches and supervises residents in psychotherapy, and a member of the faculty of the Center For Psychoanalytic Studies.

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and The Center for Psychoanalytic Studies. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.”

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.